Manchester United hit jackpot with £750m Adidas kit deal

MANCHESTER UNITED have confirmed a world record £750million kit deal with Adidas.

United's 10-year contract with the German sportswear company is from 2015-16 - and worth £75m a season.

It is worth about £44m more a season than the deal Champions League winners' Real have with Adidas and underlines United's continued global commercial pulling power despite enduring their worst season for a quarter of a century and failure to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since the mid-1990s.

But despite hitting the sponsorship jackpot, United manager Louis van Gaal is understood to have told Juve the asking price for Chile international Vidal is too high and wants a reduction especially as they are prepared to allow long-serving defender Patrice Evra to move the other way for a nominal fee.